And the party continues…
And if you can’t set an example, you’ll just have to serve as a terrible warning…
Martinis are in the shaker, chilled and ready to pour.
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Leave your keys in the basket by the door
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
CG it appears you’re going to have to lead the way in setting a bad example. 🙂
Hey FM did you get some sleep?
Hi Mary. Actually that’s all I’ve been doing all day. I had missed so many naps it finally caught up with me. 🙂
How’re ya doing today?
I’m good. I had a busy day tonight including lunch with my congressman (who was visiting us in the hope of getting contributions from us — which he did). I was kind of tired because I went to the opera last night and was wired when I got home so I didn’t go to sleep right away.
Tomorrow is an incredibly busy day starting out with a coffee I’m hosting at my house for a progressive candidate for state senate. (Why did my evil twin volunteer me for this?) Then I go to my little cousin’s highschool graduation party and then to a wedding reception in the evening.
I feel like Refinish.
Good grief. Stop this at once. You’re making the rest of us look bad.
Did the opera star Chris’s cat?
but … but … but…
I was looking for a little sympathy 🙁
Chris’s cat?
Sorry, you’ll just have to settle for admiration, but you can have tons of that, if it helps. 🙂
Chris’s cat. Nevermind. Earlier cafe.
You’re starting to sound like Refinish with your schedule. The only thing I can say is slack when possible. 🙂
… just reading this. And I actually went to work today!
And I might even have a chance now…my phone has been ringing off the hook tonight…and I still have to call my mom back too.
And, ta-da! I have an extra gig of RAM in my laptop now, courtesy of my brother. It does seem a tad faster.
My fav is still the “You say lazy like it’s bad thing.” one. But I like this one too. It reminds me of an underachiever I use to know.
And tonight’s FRT:
All Blues – Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
With You In Mind – Allen Toussaint – The Allen Toussaint Collection
I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But The Blues – Karrin Allyson – Daydream
Time Of Inconvenience – Nanci Griffith – Flyer
I Loves You Porgy – Ella Fitzgerald – Ella In Rome (The Birthday Concert)
Jesus Lifeline – Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Love Over And Over
Madagascar Cafe – Shadowfax – Folksongs For A Nuclear Village
Rejeigao – Trio Nordestino – Brazil Classics 3: Forro etc.
Batuco No Chao – Martinho Da Silva – O Samba Brazil Classics (Disc 2)
My Old Man – Joni Mitchell – Blue
Never heard Ella to I loves you Porgy but I bet it’s an interesting interpretation.
It’s interesting to say the least. Soulful before soul was a musical term. She could have done a one woman Porgy & Bess singing all the roles,
I may have to search around and see if she sang all the songs at various times. She could have had so much fun with Sportin’ Life’s songs.
I have Flyer too. Is the Karin Allyson new? I feel like I listened to bits of that the last time I was cd shopping.
The Karrin Allyson on the FRT isn’t new but she has a new album out called ‘Footprints’.
That’s what I was listening to; I think I had recognized her name from one of your previous FRTs.
Both Jim and I love her albums. Our favorite is Ballads.
Ballads is great, but it is even greater if you have Coltrane’s original to compare her comparably incomparable versions to his.
Have you seen The Onion this week? It’s particularly hilarious. Those of a certain age will like this one:
Bob Hope Not Told About War
TOLUCA LAKE, CA–Bob Hope’s doctors and support staff have elected not to tell the 98-year-old show-business legend about the current military conflict in Afghanistan.
Prolly just as well. They’d need to tell him via séance anyway. 😛
Tee hee.
in town. She is sweet, her husband is a soldier. We went over to her house a few weeks ago, they have a cute kids pool and our sons swam in it. Was talking to her on the phone today and discovered that her brother is headed to Iraq, not as a soldier but a civilian contractor. He is in law enforcement and he is going over there to help train Iraqi law enforcement. I asked her if she was afraid of losing him and she said not really. Her husband was in Iraq when mine was at the start of all this mess, and now Iraq is a much much more dangerous place. Sadly I know this because sadly my ancestors were impoverished Germans therefore I love to read! So here I am going on about Sunnis and Kurds and Shi’a and Mullahs and death squads and one mans Iraqi police force being another mans execution squad. She seemed uncomfortable so changed the subject to law enforcement and how things in the U.S. aren’t much better and we have gangs and all that sort of stuff. I’m so stupid I guess. I say, “Yeah, but we have a general group consensus that exists and we demand a sort of atmosphere of safety that encourages a civilized society. Gangs and lawlessness exist in all societies to some small degree and is the norm…..but what is happening in Iraq is no comparison to our gang problems in the United States.” She had to hang up quickly after that. I think that when the phone found the cradle she flipped it off. Sigh*….why do I always have to say what I think? Why can’t I just get along?!
Do you want tact lessons?
For tact lessons?
I don’t charge by the hour and only require 4’s.
But I warn you, you may be happier simply being yourself. Do you really WANT to be friends with someone you have to be tactful to?
Indeed. RL friends are so overrated. :>)
in the immediate vicinity of my face to face life have this GINORMOUS friggin Iraq dissonance. It is how they survive and they don’t have all of you guys for friends. I have never in my life had so many awesome friends, you guys just don’t live around the corner though. I remember my dad telling though that if I finished my life with three or four people who really knew me and understood me and loved me that I would have lived a full and amazing life. Iraq and “W” and the internet drastically changed that old stat, in a very very good way! On one hand though it is very hard for the average person to keep up with all of you guys and on the other hand I am armed with so much information these days and have had the ability to process it and accept certain things. She told me that she couldn’t imagine losing her husband even though his name is going back into the going back to Iraq hopper as quickly as my husband’s is. I think he might be headed for Korea though luckily. Then we have a slew, and I mean a slew of officers that can no longer be legally stop lossed who are getting the FUCK OUT! A whole brand new wave them crashing on the shore of reality! Many were at the house warming I was at last weekend….but they can’t just say it and their spouses can’t just come out and say it point blank, It’s been really great and loads of fun but we aren’t going to be doing the FUNNY FARM with ya’ll anymore. We are leaving now. We are going bye bye, wish all well and luck and all that shit!
Just ask if she watches faux news and if she does she is brainwashed and an excellent candidate for de-programming if you happen to know any good de-programmers willing to volunteer their services in the neighborhood….
Oh Happy Day! It’s Friday, I’m finally home and I have just enough time to have a nice, cold Fat Tire Ale before I am off to see my kid’s big show at her school tonight.
How’re ya doing and what’s the big show?
My kid is in a charter school for performing arts and is majoring in Acting. Tonight the whole middle school will be doing a play called “Your Town” and sappy, and somewhat racist look at Oakland, CA. She has one of the lead roles playing a Latina bus driver who talks like an urban black woman. Oy vey! :>)
But, I am very excited for her and she has been working real hard for months. It’s the only production they were permitted to do this year, hence, it is the Big Show.
Well I feel another big nap coming on, so I’ll see ya’ll later.
I feel guilty. I’m sitting here trying to decide whether to have BBQ, Thai, Chinese, or Pub Grub after getting off the phone with a friend that just discovered he needs to have his esophagus removed.
Life isn’t fair…to any of us.
Oh bloody hell. I’m sorry. It sucks getting calls like that, but a man still has to eat, so I recommend Thai. Do you have good Thai in Philly?
yeah, all of those options are within close walking distance, and many more.
Back when I lived in upstate NY and PA, Thai was virtually unheard of. Here in CA, though, it is abundant and varied. I like it better than Chinese because it is lighter and fresher, even when spicy. In Oakland, my town, there is a lot a good BBQ. The food choices are always better in big cities, but I am always amazed at the variety of San Francisco.
Why, I was just talking about Flint’s a little while ago! That place was great.
That sucks. big time.
But there’s no reason you can’t eat. It’s summer, go with BBQ.
Whichever you settle on, start with dessert.
I am off to the show. Have a good one all.
Yea!!!!!!! I just got back from my school’s graduation ceremony and I am in the process of grading my last papers. It’s kind of a lot, but I will finish it!!!
How is everyone?
Glad to hear you are almost done.
Do you have any plans for summer vacation?
Hi Andi. We will go to Florida to see my folks. We’ll leave about a week after I finish school. I am very excited. We haven’t seen my parents since September.
Do you and Jim have any big summer plans?
We’re going to get some work done on and around the house so we’re not doing anything much.
Does Andrew like riding in the car?
We’ll see how he likes the long ride. He did manage the 11 flight from Beijing, but he was a very different little boy then.
I saw his picture the other night…he is still such a cutie! I bet you’re thrilled to be able to spend the summer at home with him again.
I can’t even begin to descibe how ecited I am to be able to spend the summer with him.
How are the Cabin Boys? I saw pictures of them from the Baltimore meet-up. They looked like they were having a great time.
Are you still in school?
One week is manageable … 🙂
It is indeed manageable.
How are you doing Olivia?
Glad that it’s friday … 🙂
Ah, one of those weeks.
Hi everyone! Hope you’re all having a nice Friday. I’m just popping in here with a quick reminder for anyone who want to join in the book discussion about A Glimpse of Iraq. The discussion is up now here for anyone who wants to stop by.
And, it was lovely to see some of you in the shoe blog!
Your shoe blog was very funny, Izzy. It was fun to flip-flop by.
It was fun to see you there, and so unexpected! I loved all the photos, too.
I loved the shoe blog…is it going to be a regular Friday thing?
I’m glad you enjoyed it! I have no idea if it’ll be a regular thing or not. It seems like a good idea right now, and I have notions for at least a couple of others, but given my recent track-record I just can’t tell for sure.
Please, please, please!
Why of course, dear. Are you really sure you don’t aspire to being a bad example, though?
Are you trying to excite my ambition?
I breezed back over to Kos to the Booman diary and don’t try to touch me or anything, but I am a trusted user. Can you believe it? Here I was slamming and being evil only a diary ago, doing the touchdown dance in the rebels end zone and now I find out that I am precious……held aloft of the dirty multitudes…..(inner voice) can’t be very aloft though cuz I can’t imagine what I have done right at Kos. I’m so confused……is it pretty easy to get trusted user status now and I am not held aloft of the dirty multitudes at all but merely surrounded by them and rubbing shoulders and elbows with them while the newbies are all fresh and clean and playing peacefully on an uncrowded freshly mown meadow? Oh God, it’s so horrible!
If it helps, we can stop trusting you here 🙂
to get untrusted around here. I mean I thought that maybe that one time when I was bored and hacked into Booman’s email and posted all those penis enlargement emails that maybe that would have been it. But he figured out it was me and asked me quit and I did and here I am, still trusted user.
he asked you to quit and you did. There’s your problem right there.
perhaps she needs to pick a less marketable product. :-X
How are you feeling?
but the stress bug was still on the attack as of 5pm today. We interviewed several candidates this week for open positions so things are looking up, but DAMN talk about scraping the barrel with a couple of them…
How are you? 🙂
I just realized I missed Bud Blogging so I went to see him — what a funny picture. It made me forget to comment. 🙂
had time to go get my Eat4Today-inspired water throughout the day with the insanity and unfortunately Bud Blogging was an innocent casualty. It’s the first time I’ve missed it in months. I was horrified when I remembered after getting trampled for the thank-the-FSM-he’s-home-from-work pee break by the real Bud.
give him a behind the ears scratch from me.
That made Sniff feel so bad he just left the couch for the soul-healing comfort of my pillow.
He knows I’m not a one dog girl.
and accepts it intellectually but not emotionally. He’s still young and wears his heart on his collar (actually he wears his name on his collar but he’s not a literalist).
Come sit by me.
Sweet of you to offer but he’s has already made a serious commitment to my pillow.
You should try sending those DHinMI or whatever the hell his name is. I bet you could get banned!
If super simian (AKA mythmother) can acheive TU, then they need to seriously rewrite their code! LOL.
Well I just went over there and socked you some mojo, so you may be stuck with TU status for a while, anyway!
Don’t let it go to your head, LOL!!!!
And your partial first week at the new job?
Son’s concert went great and first partial week went great, it seems like a really nice place where people come in to mind their own business, be courteous, do their jobs, and then go home to live their real lives, leaving job-land behind.
Could be wrong, though. What do I know after only 3 days!
I’ve been enjoying your very green and reflective photos!
Much better than being sure after 3 days that they are all creepy jerks.
(thanks)
Much better than being sure after 3 days that they are all creepy jerks!
Been there done that!
(you’re welcome)
I can go over and make some tactful, reasoned remarks that you can take issue with in a way that would cause you to get troll rated.
I’m just sayin …
or your outer voice that said that?
You think I have an inner voice?
Of course, we do. None of us fell for that evil twin crap.
isn’t an inner voice. I have a split personality.
(No you don’t.)
Yes I do.
Split personality. Behaving as if your mother raised you right. Same difference.
I’m pretty pissed at it tonight because it told me that I couldn’t serve on paper plates with plastic forks and styrofoam cups tomorrow morning. I kept insisting that no one would care but before I knew it, it had me getting out real cups and plates, and wiping all the spots off of my stainless forks and knives. Why couldn’t it have just agreed with me?
Because your mother raised you right voice is ascendant.
my mother. If she’d only raised me like trailer trash.
Our mothers always seem to fail us when we need them the most. I’m sure this knowledge is why I never wanted children — I wanted my spectacular flame-out to be of my own making, rather than have it effortlessly handed to me
Always so helpful and accommodating! LOL
You’ve been Taken Up!? OMG you’ve been Raptured. That’s funny, you don’t look Baptist.
I’m soooo glad to be done with this week. While the long weekend was nice, it meant having to squeeze the work into a smaller time space. I celebrated my freedom with another wine bottle purchase, so I may need to add a disclaimer to my posts later on this evening.
…into a smaller time space, otherwise known as productivity and efficiency, oh shield your eyes Family Man! Posts like this should be put up with a warning to protect the innocent! LOL.
But I hope your efficiency left you more time to slack off, blog, and browse the internet in spare moments, not take on more (God forbid) job responsibilites!
can I answer with your sig line? 🙂
I risk excommunication from FM’s SlackerChurch after the past two weeks. The horror!
I have achieved my grading goal for the evening, so I am now off to bed. Enjoy your Friday night.
the PA nightlife on fire? I’ll post a new cafe if she’s not lurking.
she was around earlier.
She won’t care and I can tell you are in need of a hookah lounge.
Um, go ahead…I fell asleep. Must be that PA nightlife.
There’s plenty more at the Friday Night Fiesta (please unrecommend on your way out, Grassy Ass!)